12-letter words containing use
- house league — a sports league in which the members of all teams belong to the same organization, school, or company
- house lights — lights of a residential building
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house of god — Also called house of worship, house of prayer. a building devoted to religious worship; a church, synagogue, temple, chapel, etc.
- house prices — the sums in money for which houses may be bought or sold
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- housedresses — Plural form of housedress.
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- householders — Plural form of householder.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- housekeepers — Plural form of housekeeper.
- housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
- housemasters — Plural form of housemaster.
- housemothers — Plural form of housemother.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- inexcuseable — Alternative form of inexcusable.
- intellimouse — Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
- interdiffuse — (of two or more fluids) to diffuse mutually
- johnny house — Johnny (def 3).
- just because — for the sole reason that
- lentiviruses — Plural form of lentivirus.
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
- massachusett — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians of eastern Massachusetts.
- meadow mouse — any of numerous short-tailed rodents of the genus Microtus and allied genera, chiefly of fields and meadows in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- merveilleuse — marvellous
- mickey mouse — trite and commercially slick in character; corny: mickey mouse music.
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- mitrailleuse — a machine gun.
- monkey house — a cage or enclosure in a zoo where monkeys are kept
- mother house — a convent housing a mother superior of a community of nuns.
- motherhouses — Plural form of motherhouse.
- mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
- mouse arrest — (jargon) Getting busted for violating an on-line service's rule of conduct. "Sorry I couldn't get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest."
- mouse jockey — a person whose job mainly involves working with computers, esp for web and graphic design
- mouse trails — (operating system) A feature (usually of Graphical User Interfaces) which causes the mouse pointer to leave a trail across the screen. This is done by keeping track of the last eight or so (maybe configurable) pointer positions, and only erasing the oldest. This means that at any time, there may be up to eight pointers on the screen, but if the mouse is still, they will all be in the same position, and so only one will be visible. When the mouse moves, it appears to leave a trail of pointers behind it, and this can dramatically increase the visibility of the pointer when using LCD screens. The older ones had such long persistence that a single mouse pointer, when moving, tended to be completely invisible, and on a cluttered screen, was very difficult to find.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- museological — Pertaining to museology.
- museum piece — something suitable for keeping and exhibiting in a museum.
- nauseatingly — causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous.